Occasionally there are baseball players who deserve to be Hall of Famers but do not get voted in for reasons other than gambling (Pete Rose) or performance enhancing drugs (Barry Bonds). Shortstop/manager Alvin Dark, who died last week at age 92 in Easley, is one of those unfortunate people.

As the National Football League tries to rebound from a new awareness of the game's ugly side and ponders how to correct the problem it might look at how Florida State University has mishandled Jameis Winston.

When it was announced that college football was going to a four-team playoff system with the participants determined by a selection committee of 13, I thought we might have seen the last of weekly ratings and polls.